Distance from Jeddah to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 8,087 km (5,025 miles, 4,367 nautical miles) from Jeddah — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,087 km · 5,025 mi · 4,367 nmi
- Initial bearing Jeddah → Shanghai
- 63° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Jeddah
- 285° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 10 min
- Time zones
- Jeddah UTC+03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 315 min — the sun rises later in Jeddah
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Jeddah
- 21.4901, 39.1862
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:31 UTC / 14:45 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:16 UTC / 09:02 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.